A STATEMENT FROM THE FIAMC (ON CLONING)

“Catholic doctors reject the new technique reported from the Oregon Health and Science University in Beaverton to produce embryonic stems cells genetically identical to the adult donor as still being unethical. Some commentators have suggested that as the technique used was a modification of the original technique used to clone Dolly the sheep in 1996, and used unfertilised human oocytes, it did therefore not use human embryos and so would be more ethical.

However this technique DOES produce human embryos. Throughout the paper the authors describe the resulting product of the nuclear transfer as ‘embryos’. The developing early embryos were allowed to develop to the blastocyst stage and then treated in the conventional way to produce the embryonic stem cells. The early embryo is a clone of the adult donor and if implanted in a woman could theoretically develop into a clone of the donor adult.”

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There is also a good statement from an Evangelical Christian Doctor (not Catholic) see